CC 06: Ghost and Raven

[MetaShinryu]

Wow dude!  Lots of work here and I really love the story you've got going on with this!  Good work!

Thanks bro!

Here is the line drawing i will use for the final image, posting it by itself to showcase the design/composition before i start rendering on top of it.



The whole image is designed around telling the story from the previous boards:

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Humanoid design(ghost girl):
Is missing an eye, has a half-functioning white-pupil one(which falls and hangs out from time to time, often for humorous effect). 
Half a glasgow smile on the side with the semi-functioning eye.
Burn/bruise scars around the neck(from hanging herself)
Gashes/scars on forearms, thighs and stomach from being stabbed.
Gothic/victorian looking clothes, ragged from fighting over knife.
Unkempt, bloodstained, white hair with black areas around tip, from dye/removing braids after knife fight.
Translucent, moving spots around her skin, exposing bones periodically.

Creature design(dead raven):
Is missing the opposite eye of the girl, the other one is sunken/rotting.
Skull exposed over half its head.
Handsome-ass haircut that oddly resembles father figure on the photo...
Neck collaped due to mother figure snapping it.
Broken wing that somehow still allows it to fly, although clumsily.
Usually brings a freshly gouged out human eye for her friend(to make up for the last one, which has rotten by the time he finds it)
No one knows where he gets the eye from, usually delivers it on the weirdest times, often for humorous effect.

Composition/narrative:

The entry points to the image are the silhouette of the raven and the ghost face respectively, since both will have the highest amount of contrast around the eyes.

The girl has a glad expression, the book indicates she was about to start reading.

A page of the book is being slightly lifted up by the wind from the open window, which points to a crystal eye.

The crystal eye seems to be staring at either portrait behind the girl, or the girl's hand reaching for the human eye the raven is carrying.

The portrait shows a likeness of a mother figure and her daughter, as well as a portrait of presumably the father figure, with a candle over a memorial table, which contains various dolls, a raven toy, a wedding mockup made with dolls, and a wedding portrait.

The curtain over the portrait leads the view back to the raven and the eye.

The raven's feathers leads the viewer to either, a scene in the distance or a  raven-themed knife superimposed over it.

The scene in the distance depicts an improvised grave, too small to be a human's, with a small picture of a bird, as well as the silhouette of a human figure hanging near a bird's nest against the moon.

The knife is pinning a doll resembling the mother figure from the portrait to the table by the chest/neck.

The doll points to both the eye looking at the raven and a curtain which leads the eye to a picture of a bird similar to the one atop the grave.

The picture is torn in half, separating the head and body of the bird depicted (hopefully)indicating a relationship between the bird, the doll and the mother.

The pieces of paper from the portrait lead the eye to an art utensil, which also leads to a box semi-obscured by the table, as well as back to the girl.

The eye on the box is of the same color as the eye on the desk near the doll, and is staring back to the girl (again, hopefully) indicating a relationship between the doll, the mother, the art utensil and the girl.


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Thats about it, now the fun part... trying to remember how the heck to render something so complex from lineart :/